I'm arguing that, well, that the yard is an arbitrary measure. It's useful; however, there are other ways to measure.
Everything is arbitrary. The yardstick is arbitrary, but its used because it's been proven to work. What kind of "measurement" will you use to prove that a supreme being had a hand in the creation of existence? "How much love you feel in your heart"? The fact is that there is no material way to prove intelligent design, and science is based on material ways.
What would you rather have: your favorite OS dishing up the most webpages today, or your favorite OS earning the most money (i.e. fuel for tomorrow's R&D). Which one really matters in the long run?
Dishing up the most webpages MEANS earning the most money. If your e-commerce site only works half as much, it follows that you will earn considerably less money.
It's the US that makes it illegal to simply link to content. The rest of the world is more sane. Which again begs the question. How did they justify this raid?
You misread the previous post, it's legal in the U.S. to index content, its the other countries that made it illegal. Last time I checked, hardly any U.S.-hosted ed2k servers have been seized, and nearly all servers that have been, were hosted in Europe or Asia.
Your comments, too, will be censored by the chinese government, so there's no real point in talking to them (assuming the chinese government peruses slashdot).
What about securing the letter? Or the cell phone? If you're going to pass the email login via insecure channels like this, you might as well just pass the whole message itself. And don't give me any guff about security through obscurity.
The application for a pen register requires, "a certification by the applicant that the information likely to be obtained is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by that agency."
And we all know how well the government is at obtaining these kinds of certifications...
I don't know about you, but I would resent DRM being ported to linux. I switched operating systems to escape the restriction-ridden operating systems that are macintosh and windows.
(Commence the modding down by mac fanboys who think their favorite operating system has no restrictions whatsoever on what it can do).
The idea is that they pay normal people to share their own access points (or in the case of "linuses", access is given out for free). While there may be wireless access available in alot of locations, if everybody who has an access point were to offer it, there would be alot more coverage. Think about the residential areas where there isn't a borders or starbucks nearby: You could connect to a "bill" access point hosted by your average joe (provided you bought the subscription), bill gets paid, and google gets paid. While one may think that google is getting something for nothing, it offers a universal payment scheme for residential access points everywhere.
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I'm arguing that, well, that the yard is an arbitrary measure. It's useful; however, there are other ways to measure.
Everything is arbitrary. The yardstick is arbitrary, but its used because it's been proven to work. What kind of "measurement" will you use to prove that a supreme being had a hand in the creation of existence? "How much love you feel in your heart"?
The fact is that there is no material way to prove intelligent design, and science is based on material ways.
I love freedom, but I am willing to give some up if it means my wife and daughter are safer as a result.
"Those who will give up essential libery for a little temporary freedom deserve neither liberty nor freedom"
- Benjamin Franklin
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither"
-Thomas Jefferson
If they're such pros at information gathering, then why would they need extra time to gather this information?
Everybody I have ever seen using ThinkPads for a long time is pretty much addicted to the thing.
They aren't addicted, they've just been forced to use it for so long that they no longer remember how much better a touchpad is.
It is a zero sum game. Either one person gets a job or another gets the job. Two people can't have the exact same job.
It is. The average person will either buy microsoft or apple, not both.
What would you rather have: your favorite OS dishing up the most webpages today, or your favorite OS earning the most money (i.e. fuel for tomorrow's R&D). Which one really matters in the long run?
Dishing up the most webpages MEANS earning the most money. If your e-commerce site only works half as much, it follows that you will earn considerably less money.
Filenames reflecting their actual contents? HA!
You've obviously never used a filesharing network.
Legally, yes.
Morally, not so much.
It's the US that makes it illegal to simply link to content. The rest of the world is more sane. Which again begs the question. How did they justify this raid?
You misread the previous post, it's legal in the U.S. to index content, its the other countries that made it illegal. Last time I checked, hardly any U.S.-hosted ed2k servers have been seized, and nearly all servers that have been, were hosted in Europe or Asia.
That name is already taken by the makers of both the common robotic vacuum and the army's robotic killing machines.
If theres only a windows version, and no source code, then its no better than acrobat. I was hoping this would be some kind of open standard.
- Chinese users who attempt to access google.com from china are redirected to google.cn, without an option to not be.
- Chinese users cannot use proxies to access google.com because the proxies are blocked, as well as many proxy sites.
Your comments, too, will be censored by the chinese government, so there's no real point in talking to them (assuming the chinese government peruses slashdot).
I used to roll a die to figure out which gender I was going to play
I laughed when I read this in the context of an RPG article...
anticompetitive? or competitive?
Rent one or two copies to use as a reference Problem solved
The question is, are people willing to pay extra money for these features?
Yes.
What about securing the letter? Or the cell phone? If you're going to pass the email login via insecure channels like this, you might as well just pass the whole message itself. And don't give me any guff about security through obscurity.
You mean the same attorney general who argued that Abraham Lincoln's electronic surveillance programs justified his own?
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http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/1416
The application for a pen register requires, "a certification by the applicant that the information likely to be obtained is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by that agency."
And we all know how well the government is at obtaining these kinds of certifications...
*cough*FISA*cough
I don't know about you, but I would resent DRM being ported to linux. I switched operating systems to escape the restriction-ridden operating systems that are macintosh and windows.
(Commence the modding down by mac fanboys who think their favorite operating system has no restrictions whatsoever on what it can do).
A company can't deny any sort of service to somebody based solely on their sexual orientation.
Blizzard is doing just that.
How much will I have to pay for yet another router if I want this? Why can't we all just agree on one high-speed wireless standard?
The idea is that they pay normal people to share their own access points (or in the case of "linuses", access is given out for free). While there may be wireless access available in alot of locations, if everybody who has an access point were to offer it, there would be alot more coverage.
Think about the residential areas where there isn't a borders or starbucks nearby: You could connect to a "bill" access point hosted by your average joe (provided you bought the subscription), bill gets paid, and google gets paid. While one may think that google is getting something for nothing, it offers a universal payment scheme for residential access points everywhere.
All this and I didn't even RTFA.